Hi,

Why is Lenin’s body still on display in Russia? Isn’t Russia now an Orthodox country that rejects communism? I understand he died 100 years ago, his body has to be chemically treated every year to avoid decomposition, and most of the organic material is long gone.

Why don’t they just bury his body in an undisclosed location and move on?

Any thoughts?

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the department is 'working toward the total elimination of cartels to make America safe again'

The Trump Treasury Department's new sanctions are a "full-frontal assault" on one of the deadliest southern border cartels, a local border official told Fox News Digital.

The Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned two high-ranking Cartel del Noreste (CDN) members, Mexican nationals Miguel Angel de Anda Ledezma and Ricardo Gonzalez Sauceda, Wednesday.

CDN was one of eight cartels and transnational criminal groups labeled "foreign terrorist organizations" by the Department of State Feb. 20.

Under new sanctions announced this week, all property and interest in properties belonging to De Anda and Gonzalez that are in the United States or in the possession or control of U.S. persons are blocked.
While announcing the sanctions, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the department is "working toward the total elimination of cartels to make America safe again" and that the Trump administration "will hold these terrorists accountable for their criminal activities and abhorrent acts of violence."

"CDN and its leaders have carried out a violent campaign of intimidation, kidnapping and terrorism, threatening communities on both sides of our southern border," said Bessent. "We will continue to cut off the cartels’ ability to obtain the drugs, money and guns that enable their violent activities."


By targeting CDN’s leadership, Perez said the Trump administration is effectively weakening the cartel by creating a power vacuum that will cause infighting that will further sap the organization’s strength.

"The cartels are definitely going to feel it," he said. "So, it's a full-frontal assault from the United States.


"That's the protection that we're bringing to the border that we weren't able to bring under President Biden," he added.

"President Trump, on the campaign trail, and since he's been in office, has repeatedly said he's going to do everything he can to protect the United States, to protect its citizens and make sure that there's nobody around that can do harm to our country. And he's doing that. He's taking on the cartels. He's not afraid of them.

"We want to decimate the cartel activity that's going on in the United States. So, he's done what he said he was going to. We support that 100%."

Jerusalem Post witnesses said that they saw rioters spit on Standing Together activists, assault police officers, and sing racist chants.​

The Israel Police and left-leaning Israeli organizations reported several instances of violence in the Old City and the Arab Quarter of Jerusalem.

Videos circulated on social media showed activists from Standing Together being assaulted by rioters and escorted out of the quarter by the police. The organization said that it was providing a protective presence to Arab Israelis in the area.

Another video showed rioters swarming a group of Arab Israeli women and performing derogatory gestures.

Post reporters also heard nationalistic chants that could incite racial violence, including “We will burn your villages!”

Reporters also saw marchers in the Flag Day Parade wearing shirts that said “Without Nakba, there is no victory.”

Signs in the parade also contained expansionist and nationalistic themes, including: “67: Jerusalem is in our hands 2025: Gaza is in our hands.”

Democrats chairman Maj.-Gen. (res.) Yair Golan called the riots an offense to Judaism and Zionism.

“This is not what love for Jerusalem looks like: This is what hatred, racism, and bullying look like. This is not our Judaism. This is not the Zionism we believe in,” he wrote on X/Twitter.

Thousands of Israelis join violent, racist march through Jerusalem’s Muslim quarter​

Thousands of Israelis have joined a state-funded march through the Muslim quarter of the Old City in Jerusalem, where large groups chanted racist slogans including “Gaza is ours”, “death to the Arabs” and “may their villages burn”.

The annual march, paid for and promoted by the Jerusalem city government, celebrates Israel’s capture and occupation of East Jerusalem and its holy sites in the war of 1967. The Israeli takeover is not recognised internationally.

The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said it was reasonable to predict that the T-shirt will “poison the educational atmosphere” and disrupt the learning environment.

And SCOTUS saw no reason to intervene.

See also:

“He’s sending rockets into cities and killing people, and I don’t like it at all,”


Did Trump not know that this has been happening for the last three years? What else might he not know (aside from the complexity of Health Care for Americans)?

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In March, Newsom shocked friends and foes alike by publicly admitting during a podcast interview with conservative pundit Charlie Kirk that it’s “deeply unfair” to allow transgenders to compete against biological women.
“The Governor, himself, said it is ‘UNFAIR.’ I will speak to him today to find out which way he wants to go???” Trump added.
“In the meantime I am ordering local authorities, if necessary, to not allow the transitioned person to compete in the State Finals. This is a totally ridiculous situation!!!”
I don't understand why they just don't have trans people compete against trans.

So you’ll love this. Christians hold a rally in Seattle. They get attacked. Then the mayor of Seattle criticizes the Christians for instigating the leftist maniacs.

In short, your speech is violence and their violence is speech.

Fox News: Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell blamed a Christian rally and infiltrating “anarchists” for violence breaking out at a counter-protest on Saturday.

The Seattle Police Department reported 23 people were arrested at Cal Anderson Park during MayDayUSA’s “Don’t Mess With Our Kids” rally and a pro-LGBTQ counter-protest. According to SPD, police witnessed “multiple people inside one group throw items at the opposing group” and, while arresting individuals, were assaulted by other individuals, leading to an officer requiring medical treatment.

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• In 2023, a Mexican girl with a life-threatening medical condition was allowed to enter the U.S. legally on humanitarian grounds.
• The Trump administration has now ordered the girl and her parents to leave the country.
• One of the girl’s physicians says that if her treatment is interrupted, “this could be fatal within a matter of days.”

The girl was a year delayed [in walking] because she had spent most of her short life in a hospital in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, tethered to feeding tubes 24 hours a day. She has short bowel syndrome, a rare condition that prevents her body from completely absorbing the nutrients of regular food.

In 2023, they received temporary humanitarian permission to enter the U.S. legally through Tijuana.

Now in Bakersfield, the family received notice last month that their legal status had been terminated.

The thought of being forced by immigration agents to return to Mexico terrifies [mom] Vargas.

“I know the treatment they have there for her is not adequate, because we already lived it,” she said. “Those were bad times. Here she is living the most normal life possible.”

Brown, their lawyer, submitted a petition for a continuation of their temporary humanitarian legal status based on S.G.V.’s medical condition. She believes the family’s legal status was prematurely terminated by mistake.

President Trump lambasted Biden over his broad expansion of programs allowing humanitarian entry, known as parole. On his first day in office, Trump issued an executive order to ensure that the discretionary authority be “exercised on only a case-by-case basis” for urgent humanitarian reasons or a significant public benefit.

[But ICE needs to meet those quotas. This is a three-fer]

The Trump administration has stripped humanitarian protections from hundreds of thousands of immigrants who entered the U.S. under various Biden-era programs. Thousands of people who similarly entered the country using the CBP One app received notices from the federal government around the same time Vargas did, ordering them to leave voluntarily or face criminal prosecution and other legal actions.

President Trump granted another pardon on Monday for a former official he claimed was the victim of a “weaponized” Justice Department (DOJ) during the Biden administration, granting clemency to former Sheriff Scott Jenkins.

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Jenkins was indicted in June 2023 based on allegations that he accepted more than $70,000 in bribes in the form of cash or campaign contributions from more than a half dozen, including two undercover FBI agents.

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Prosecutors alleged that Jenkins appointed these men as auxiliary deputy sheriffs, giving them badges and credentials despite them not being trained or vetted and not offering services to the sheriff’s office. They also accused him of pressuring local officials in the case of one man, a convicted felon, to restore his right to own a firearm.

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Story from when he was originally convicted:

I suppose the thinking is that abuse works like a criminal conviction - it doesn't count if it's pardoned away. That's how that works, right?

Hey CF family,

A while back, I made a thread asking if John MacArthur was guilty of heresy based on some things he had previously said about Mary and Christ’s nature. That thread ended up getting a TON of replies. In fact I was surprised on how viral the thread got and it was one of my biggest threads ever. It ended up being eventually closed by my request after it got pretty heated between people. Im hoping by reopening this topic several years later we can discuss this in a less heated way than we did last time.


Here’s the original thread for context:


Well, I want to revisit what kicked it all off: MacArthur stating that Mary is not the mother of God, only the mother of Jesus’s human nature. And I want to talk about this again—not out of disrespect, but out of genuine theological concern.

Here’s the problem:​

Saying “Mary is not the mother of God” might sound like a way to avoid Catholic excesses, but it dangerously flirts with Nestorianism—the heresy that splits Jesus into two persons: one divine, one human.


The Council of Ephesus (431 AD) declared that Mary is Theotokos—God-bearer—not because she’s divine, but because Jesus is one person with two natures, fully God and fully man. Rejecting that title isn’t just unwise—it risks denying the unity of Christ’s person.

And this is what deeply bothers me:​

MacArthur is widely respected in Reformed circles (myself included), and most people just assume he’s untouchable. But even solid men can misspeak, or worse, double down on poor theology out of reaction to Rome.


I'm not here to stir division—I’m here because I care about Christology, not Marian doctrine. If Jesus is not one unified person, the gospel falls apart.


So I’m asking again—not to attack MacArthur, but to challenge us all:

• Can a rejection of Theotokos be biblically or historically justified?
• Is MacArthur’s view just poor wording… or is it genuinely dangerous?
• Why do so many Reformed Christians seem willing to overlook it?

Would love your thoughts, especially if you’re well-versed in Christological debates or church history.

You can find an audio clip of his statement here but forgive me I don't remember where in the audio clip he says it and my original post doesn't mention.:

Is Shangdi the same as our God? Same root?

A vacation lodge known as the Wagon Box Inn in the tiny town of Story, Wyoming, has emerged as an unlikely hub of rightwing ambitions to reorient US politics and culture.

Events held there since it opened, and others planned for this spring, have brought together figures from the so-called “dissident right”, political figures backed by reactionary currents in Silicon Valley, and proponents of the “network state” movement.

The dissident right is a term that describes rightwing intellectual currents that go beyond and even attack mainstream conservatives for their perceived concessions to liberals on issues like race, feminism and LGBTQ+ rights. Network state proponents envision a network of extra-national communities that exist beyond the control of nation-states.

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When we are born into this world as human babies, we are born from the wombs of our mothers with sin natures, in the image of Adam, the first man created by God, and the first man to sin against God. We are lost in our sins without hope, destined to spend eternity in hell apart from God’s love and grace. So that is why God the Father sent his only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to the earth, to die on a cross, to put our sins to death with him, so that we can now die to sin and live to God and to his righteousness.

So, when we die to our old lives of living in sin and for self, by faith in Jesus Christ, we are thus born again of the Spirit of God, and we are given new lives in the Spirit to now be lived for God in walks of obedience to his commands, in moral purity, uprightness, honesty, faithfulness and walks of surrender to the will of God for our lives. This is what it means to be “born again,” to die to sin and to now live for God. Our lives given over to the flesh are now to be done away with so that we can now live to be pleasing to God.

So, we are not “born again” if all we do is make a verbal confession of Christ as Lord and Savior, but while we continue to live as we did before we made that confession of faith. And we are not “born again” if obedience to God is not our practice, but if deliberate and habitual sin is still what we practice. For “born again” is not some status we wear, but it means to begin again, to start over, only not the same as you were before, but different, changed, transformed in heart, mind, and behavior by the power and grace of God.

Now, Nicodemus did not understand what Jesus meant by “born again,” for he was thinking in human terms. And it is important here that we pay close attention to the context, for that determines what comes next. And the context is that of being “born again” and of Nicodemus thinking in terms of being born again from the womb of a mother. And when we are born of a human mother, we are born of water. So Jesus said we need to be born of water (our physical birth) and of the Spirit, our spiritual birth. We need both.

And then what did he say? “That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.” And when we are born of the flesh, that is in reference to our physical birth, which is when we are born of water, from the wombs of our mothers. So he was letting him know that there are two births. The first one is physical (of water, of our mother’s womb), but then we need to be born again, this time spiritually, of the Spirit, by God persuaded faith in Jesus Christ, resulting in death to sin and obeying God.

So there is no need ever to interpret “water,” in this context, in any other way than to refer to our physical birth from the wombs of our mothers.

But the main message that we need to come away from this today is that God requires that we be born again, only this time not physically, but spiritually, and not of our human mothers, but of the Spirit of God, and only as we, by God-gifted and God-persuaded faith in Jesus Christ, die with him to sin, and we are raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves (addicts) to sin, but as slaves to God and to his righteousness, in walks of obedience to his commands, by the grace of God.

For if sin remains our practice, and not walks of obedience to our Lord’s commands, we will not have salvation from sin and eternal life with God.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:6-8; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:5-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]

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An Original Work / May 13, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

I come before You, Lord, my Savior,
With humble heart and crushed in spirit.
I bow before You, I implore You,
Heal my broken heart, I pray.
Love You, Jesus, Lord, my master,
You are the King of my heart.
Lord, purify my heart within me;
Sanctify me, whole within.

Oh, Lord, I long to obey fully
The words You’ve spoken through Your Spirit.
I pray You give me grace and mercy,
Strength and wisdom to obey.
Father God, my heart’s desire,
Won’t You set my heart on fire?
Lord, cleanse my heart of all that hinders
My walk with You, now I pray.

Oh, Jesus, Savior, full of mercy,
My heart cries out for understanding.
I want to follow You in all ways,
Never straying from Your truth.
Holy Spirit, come in power,
Fill me with Your love today.
Lord, mold and make me;
Your hands formed me;
Live Your life through me, I pray.

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Unless You are Born Again
An Original Work / May 27, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

I encountered God's goodness in His discipline and forgiveness as a youth. I never saw that goodness and even if I did, it is not like it taking place in my heart itself. This in turn changes me to read and interpret sacred scripture differently to some other Christians who only have Sola Scriptura, the example of Martin Luther and the difficult passages in the OT. Like Lamentations. Jesus cross shows love but there is violence and much hidden meaning.

Also Jesus blessed the little children, but also lamented and said He wished He could hold them under His wings, but that Jerusalem would be destroyed. And Luther endorsed the soldiers to stop a revolution in Germany.

I say that a personal taste of God's goodness is vital to know God and understand scripture and perhaps write a theodicy. It takes the Spirit and His touch or fill.

This site claims to be quoting Pope Leo XIV

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I am not sure that this is actually Leo XIV - but it was written very well.

The obvious answer would seem to be at the giving of the ten commandments at Mt Sinai in Exodus chapter 20:

And God spoke all these words:
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Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 9Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work—neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant or livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates. 11For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, but on the seventh day He rested. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy.

This is not the first time that the word comes in the Bible. In Gen 2 we read:
Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. 2And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work.a

3Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on that day He rested from all the work of creation that He had accomplished.

Just as in English there is a strong similarity between the Hebrew words for seventh and sabbath. But these verses seem to be an aside written by the author as a comment on the verse. It's not recording giving of the sabbath to Adam and Eve.

Before the giving of the ten commandments at Mt Sinai we have the account of the manna from heaven in Ex 16
Nevertheless, some of the people went out on the seventh day to gather it, but they found none. 28Then the Lord said to Moses, “How long will you c refuse to keep my commands and my instructions? 29Bear in mind that the Lord has given you the Sabbath; that is why on the sixth day he gives you bread for two days. Everyone is to stay where they are on the seventh day; no one is to go out.” 30So the people rested on the seventh day.

Now this happens before the Israelites get to Mt Sinai so when was the sabbath first given to the Israelites?

Christian who does not know what the flesh is, thinking that all evil and sin comes from the flesh. And thought that good and kind acts come from the Spirit of God. Therefore, ignorant Christian often thinks that sinning (disobedience and breaking the law) is from the flesh. Hence, most ignorant Christians associate behaviour as an indication of repentance (good behaviour equals a Christian who has repented and bad behaviour equals a false Christian who was not saved).

Have you considered this? A non-Christian (gentile) from all other religions who has never accepted Jesus, never born again, does NOT have the Spirit of God and still the sinner is capable of doing charitable works, good works, kind acts and sacrifice self for others. From this, we can conclude that the flesh (which is part of the unsaved sinner) is capable of EVIL and GOOD works.

If good works is a sign of repentance and salvation, doesn’t that qualify a non-Christian who has done lots of good work entry into Heaven? But the answer is NO. According to the bible, nothing good comes from the flesh.

Romans 7:18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

And that includes the righteous deeds and acts from the flesh.

Isaiah 64:6 All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all OUR RIGHTEOUS ACTS ARE LIKE FILTHY RAGS; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away

The flesh is like a two-edged sword, sin/disobedience on one edge and good works/righteous acts on the other edge.

When you are sinning, you will feel condemn and distant yourself from God and church.

When you are doing good works and righteous, you will feel good, pride will start to increase. And you will stop depending on God until your next sin or fall.

Both sides of the flesh will cut like a two-edged sword.

What is the Spirit of God?

The Spirit of God is a totally foreign entity that is not part of us. The spirit of God has a will of its own. When a person is born again and received the Holy Spirit, it indwells the Christian.

Ephesians 1:13-14 And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession—to the praise of his glory.

The Spirit of God and the flesh are two different entities in a Christian. They are constantly at war with each other.

Galatians 5:17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.

How to know that you are operating in the Flesh or the Spirit?

The flesh is part of us. When we operate in the flesh, we will be depending on ourselves.

Why does the flesh sins? It is due to the lack of faith in God. When we depend on ourselves, we take the faith in God and put it on ourselves.

Romans 14:23 But whoever has doubts is condemned if they eat, because their eating is not from faith; and EVERYTHING THAT DOES NOT COME FROM FAITH IS SIN.

Because of the lack of faith in God, we will start to doubt (whether God will or even willing to provide?).

Doubting lead to worry (we will start to formulate our own plans).

Worrying lead to fear (when our plans failed).

Fear lead to sin (we will use unorthodox methods such as lying, cheating, stealing and etc).

Revelation 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

Doubting is unbelieving and it ends in fear. A doubtful and fearful heart is the mother and the start of sins. In Revelation 21:8, God puts the fearful and unbelieving as the first group into hell.

Are you feeling weary and burdened to please God? If yes, then you are depending on your flesh (self-effort, self-determination, self-sacrifice and yourself) to obey. Everything depending on self is of the flesh.

During Jesus’ ministry on earth (except when he was carrying our sins), there was NO mention of Jesus feeling worried, anxious, stressed and fearful when he was facing an impossible situation with no solution. Instead, Jesus was always restful, relaxed, calm and gentle.

Why it is so? It is because Jesus did not depend on himself. Jesus did NOT plan ahead (Remember, the Holy Spirit is a different entity from our mind and body. If we plan ahead, we are depending on our own intelligence and abilities).

Mark 13:11 But when they arrest you and deliver you up, do not worry beforehand, or premeditate what you will speak. But whatever is given you in that hour, speak that; for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.

The only preparation work that Jesus did was to pray. Jesus flowed with the Spirit of God and did what he saw his Father did through the Spirit. If God the Father completed the task, there is no doubt that it will be completed physically when we embark on the assigned task.

John 5:19 Then Jesus answered and said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner.

Even though Jesus’ 3.5 years of ministry on earth was tough and impossible (in the eye of man), he said that his yoke is easy and burden is light. Jesus flowed with the Spirit of God and did what was assigned to him by God (there are many good works to be done but not all good works are assigned) and he did it with the empowerment of the Spirit of God (when God assign a task, he will go in advance to make preparation in the situation and hearts of the people involved.)

Have you removed your old yoke (the yoke of the law which is designed to be uphold and obey by the flesh) and put on Jesus’ yoke (the yoke of grace which is lots of prayer and flowing with the Holy Spirit and empowerment from God)?

Matthew 11:28-30 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

For pride month I thought I might dip my toes into queer theology for the first time. Does anyone have any recommendations for something that is written for lay-people?

“A local judge in Boston ordered the flight grounded and has now trapped ICE officers in Djibouti with these savage monsters! Having to guard and protect them 24-7 in a location with no appropriate facilities! No detention space! No detention beds! Nothing! Putting their lives on the line! They have to watch them 24-7. There aren’t enough resources to ensure the safety of these ICE officers! Is this judge mad? Is this judge a lunatic? What kind of country are we living in where we are even having this kind of conversation!?” Stephen Miller said during an appearance on Newsmax this weekend.

I absolutely concur with Mr. Miller.

Hi all,

I saw a random video of Holy Saturday being celebrated, and when the priest was walking by, many of the parishioners were touching his vestments as he walked by.

Is this common? Greek tradition? Russian?

Peace

Here's a link. For some reason this isn't getting much attention...

Police Arrest Protestors at Seattle's Cal Anderson Park

CNN —
President Donald Trump said Sunday that Vladimir Putin “has gone absolutely CRAZY,” after the Russian leader launched the largest aerial attack of Moscow’s three-year full-scale war on Ukraine.

“I’ve always had a very good relationship with Vladimir Putin of Russia, but something has happened to him. He has gone absolutely CRAZY! He is needlessly killing a lot of people, and I’m not just talking about soldiers. Missiles and drones are being shot into Cities in Ukraine, for no reason whatsoever,” Trump posted on Truth Social.

Hours earlier, Trump had told reporters: “I’m not happy with what Putin is doing. He’s killing a lot of people, and I don’t know what the hell happened to Putin.”

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The Abrahamic and Sinai Covenants: Two Distinct Pillars of God's Plan

Many today wonder whether the covenant made with Abraham is the same as the one given at Mount Sinai, or whether one replaces the other. According to Scripture, the Abrahamic Covenant and the Sinai Covenant are two distinct covenants. They serve different purposes, were given at different times, and are not mutually exclusive. One does not cancel or replace the other, but both are part of God's unfolding plan. To be valid, however, any covenant requires both parties to accept and uphold their agreement.

The Abrahamic Covenant was given long before the law at Sinai. It is centered on God's promises to Abraham and his descendants. In Genesis 17:7, God says, "And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you." This covenant was unconditional, built on God's word alone, and it included promises of land, a great nation, and that through Abraham all nations of the earth would be blessed. It was sealed with a sign—circumcision.

In contrast, the Sinai Covenant was given to the children of Israel after their exodus from Egypt. It was a conditional covenant based on obedience to God’s commandments. In Exodus 19:5-6, God says, "Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people..." This covenant included the Ten Commandments, along with civil and ceremonial laws. Its sign was the Sabbath, as written in Exodus 31:16-17: "Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath... for a perpetual covenant. It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel forever."

Though they are different, Scripture never teaches that one replaces the other. In fact, God continually refers back to the Abrahamic Covenant even after the giving of the law. In Leviticus 26:42, God says, "Then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham I will remember..." This proves that God keeps His promises and sees the Abrahamic covenant as still active, even when Israel fails to uphold the Sinai covenant.

The prophet Micah also testifies to this in Micah 7:20: "You will give truth to Jacob and mercy to Abraham, which You have sworn to our fathers from days of old." This shows that the covenant with Abraham remains alive, grounded in mercy and promise, while the covenant with Israel at Sinai was based on truth and responsibility.

When Jesus came, He did not erase either covenant. He confirmed the promises made to Abraham and fulfilled the requirements of the law. In Luke 1:72-73, Zacharias proclaims under the Holy Spirit, "To perform the mercy promised to our fathers and to remember His holy covenant, the oath which He swore to our father Abraham." And in Matthew 5:17, Jesus says, "Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill."

Jesus did not cancel the law, nor did He replace the promise. Instead, He revealed their deeper meaning and brought them together in Himself. The Abrahamic covenant lives on through faith, and the Sinai covenant is written in the hearts of those who love God, as promised in Jeremiah 31:33: "I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people."

But just like any covenant, both the Abrahamic and Sinai covenants require agreement. God's promises are sure, but they must be received. The law is holy, but it must be embraced by a willing heart. A covenant is only fully alive when both sides honor it. This is why Jesus calls His followers to not only believe, but to obey. As He said in Luke 6:46, "Why do you call Me 'Lord, Lord,' and not do the things which I say?"

In the end, both covenants stand as two pillars of God's relationship with His people. The Abrahamic Covenant reveals God’s unbreakable promise. The Sinai Covenant reveals His holy standard. One flows into the other. The promise leads to the law written in the heart. The inheritance of Abraham is received by faith, and that faith leads to obedience, not lawlessness.

God never broke either covenant. He is still waiting for His people to agree with Him, to walk in His ways, and to accept the fullness of what He has promised and commanded. These two covenants together show the beauty of God’s plan: mercy, truth, faith, and obedience working together in harmony.

In the last days on the brink of the return of Christ to gather His People, there will be wide spread apostacy in religion wherein they will speak as though they honor the Lord Jesus Christ, but in reality they dishonor Him in His Person and Work, and deny the Saving Power of His Death. Paul writes 2 Tim 3:5

Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

They deny the Power of Godliness by denying the Saving Power/Efficacy of the Death/Blood of Christ. This they do by teaching that sinners Christ died for remain lost and condemned. This teaching is a great dishonor to the Person and Work of Jesus Christ. I will in this thread post scriptures that Testify to the Saving Death of Christ, yes His Death in and of itself, secured and brings about the Salvation of each and every sinner He died for, namely His Elect, or Sheep or His Church !

First lets look at Peters writing to believers here 1 Pet 2:24

Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.


The baring of our sins and His stripes are one and the same, which resulted in being healed. The word for healed iaomai means:

1. to cure, heal
2. to make whole
   
   1. to free from errors and sins, to bring about (one's) salvation
      
      Yes it means to bring about or accomplish or effect ones Salvation ! Thats what His Death did for them He died for. Thats why they became believers, Salvation causes belief in the Truth 2 Thess 2:13
      
      But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth: